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Special TG4 New Year’s Eve celebration of the extraordinary talent of Liam Reilly and his band Bagatelle

MOSAS held a rally to raise awareness on the six-month anniversary of their strike against San Antonio Symphony management.

Who would have thought that the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra would be beaming from an electronic billboard in Times Square? Well, believe it or not, that’s what happened last October. The faces of maestro Salvador Brotons and the three winners of the orchestra’s Young Artist Competition were all smiles at the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street.

With a host of exciting guest artists and a unique mix of music, there's a lot to look forward to in Grant Park Music Festival's 2022 season.

After 23 months, Selkirk Pro Musica is thrilled to present “The Art of Chamber Music”, featuring local musicians Martine denBok on violin and viola and cellist Jeff Faragher. The pair will be joined by guests Dave Restivo, piano, and Nicola Everton, clarinet, for an evening of chamber music offering a diverse selection of duos and trios. The rich blend of strings will be

Maestro Yiannis Hadjiloizou and the Cyprus National Symphony perform for Pope Francis.

Folk roots joyously explored, Classical music review by Sebastian Scotney

Kareem Roustom honors victims of racial violence with new violin concerto Led by principal guest conductor Gemma New, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will premiere the work on Thursday, with its principal second violinist, Angela Fuller Heyde. Kareem Roustom, a Syrian-born American composer, completed his Second Violin Concerto last summer. In a phone interview, he said, It was impossible not to be aware of what was going on … and not feel this profound grief and frustration.(John Robson) “In...

Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. View here. 12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Conce...

Monday, December 14, 2020 at 4 a.m. In this the strangest of all seasons with routines disrupted everywhere, First Soloist Allison Miller found herself — along with other members of Houston Ballet — dealing with a holiday production differing in just about every way from her normal involvement in The Nutcracker. "Its very strange to have a... Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 4 a.m. Long a Bayou City tradition, the annual parade of trades merchan...